Download or read book Folktales and Reality written by Lutz Röhrich and published by . This book was released on 1991-12-22 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Peter Tokofsky has provided English readers with a superb translation of one of the most important books on folktales." —Wolfgang Mieder This classic work, first published in 1956, is now available in English. Along with Lüthi's The European Folktale and Propp's The Morphology of the Folktale, Röhrich's Märchen und Wirklichkeit is considered a key text in folklore scholarship.